Freddie Hall (2)

Piano pounder Freddie Hall came from Chicago where he cut a single for Chance in ’54 backed by Little Walter’s Aces (sans Walter) and didn’t record again until 1959 when he cut this crude rocker– She’s An Upsetter b/w I Love This Carrying On for C.J., the first and best of three 45’s he’d wax for that tiny label. Ike Perkins guitar playing is especially noteworthy on this one. On his next disc (Little Baby’s Rock, C.J. 602) the band would be dubbed the Night Rockers, cuz that’s exactly what the were. Oddly enough, in the latest edition of Blues Records 1943-1970 the personal on this record are listed as unknown. One look at the label tells us who the personal were, they’re names are printed right there on the label! Someone should write in a correction, I’m way to lazy to get around to it. Anyway, the a-side bears a strange musical resemblance to the Cochran Brothers’ Tired & Sleepy (Ekko, 1957), while the b-side is perhaps the crudest Muddy Waters cop ever recorded. A double sided winner.